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Rockford Xellerix to Support Pilatus PC-24 Electrification
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd. of Stans, Switzerland has awarded a long-term multi-year contract to Abu Dhabi-based Rockford Xellerix for the assembly of wire looms and cable harnesses for...
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Honeywell Targets Urban Air Mobility Market with New Hybrid Turboshaft Engine
Looking to expand its offerings for urban air mobility solutions, Honeywell International, Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina has developed a new hybrid-electric...
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Orbex Debuts Innovative Smallsat Launch Vehicle
Orbex, a developer of small satellite (smallsat) launch vehicles based in Forres, Scotland, has unveiled its “Prime” launch vehicle. The rocket is the second stage of a two-stage vehicle...
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Curtiss-Wright Black Boxes Receive European Approval
Curtiss-Wright Corporation’s Fortress line of combined cockpit voice recorders (CVRs) and flight data recorders (FDRs) are now have European Technical Standard Order (ETSO) approval....
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Norsk and SAE International Collaborate on World’s First Directed Energy Deposition Specification
Norsk Titanium’s proprietary “Rapid Plasma Deposition” (RPD) additive manufacturing (AM) process is distinguished in the aviation...
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Techstars and Starburst Start New Space Technology Business Accelerator
With an unprecedented number of breakthrough space technologies like reusable rockets, additive manufacturing (AM) or “3D printing,” advanced materials, and...
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Nvidia Partners with AdaCore to Secure Self-Driving Firmware
As mobility software becomes increasingly complex and connected, so does the risk of human error and system safety. To combat this, New York-based software company AdaCore will...
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Northrop Grumman Will Develop Next-Gen Navigation System for U.S. Air Force
Northrop Grumman Corporation, based out of Falls Church, Virginia, will proceed with the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase of the Embedded...
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New SAE Technical-Paper Competition Targets Submissions from Student and Young-Professional Members
SAE International is hosting a technical-paper competition for student and young-professional members with an enticing potential payoff:...
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JLR Pavement Signals Throw New Light on AV Trust Levels
A necessity for all AVs is to ensure that other road users, including pedestrians, have trust in their actions. To help achieve this confidence, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has developed...
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Curtiss-Wright and Honeywell Team to Develop Cloud-Enabled Flight Recorders of the Future
Davidson, North Carolina-based Curtiss-Wright Corporation and Honeywell International, Inc. of Charlotte, North Carolina will co-develop a...
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Safran and MTU Aero Engines to Co-Develop Engine for Sixth-Generation FCAS Fighter
Paris-based Safran SA and Munich-based MTU Aero Engines AG will partner to develop, produce, and support a new turbofan engine for “New Generation...
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Citroën Frames a Motion-Sickness Solution
Following Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR’s) detailing of a new system to help alleviate motion sickness in vehicles, French company Citroën has announced its own undeniably unique solution:...
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Airbus and Dassault Aviation Will Start Development of the “New Generation Fighter” for European FCAS Program
Later this month, Dassault Aviation SA and Airbus SE will begin work on a first-ever joint concept study (JCS) to develop a...
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SpaceX Tests Raptor Engine, Prepares for Starship “Hop”
Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX has test fired its Raptor rocket engine at its Rocket Development and Test Facility, in McGregor, Texas. The Raptor is designed to power the...
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New Swarm and Search AI Challenge Combines Machine Learning and UAS to Help Map Wildfires
A new international competition will challenge engineers to map wildfires and conduct search and rescue missions with swarming unmanned aircraft...
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The GE T901 Will Be the U.S. Army’s Next Gen Helicopter Engine
While GE Aviation’s T700 turboshaft engine has powered the U.S. Army’s Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk utility helicopters for more...
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Boeing Partners with Aerion to Speed Development and Testing of Next-Generation Supersonic Aircraft, Accelerate Supersonic Travel
The AS2 from Aerion in Reno, Nevada, will be the first supersonic business jet to market, Boeing officials in...
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GDCA Inc. Partners with Abaco Systems to Help Avoid Embedded End-Of-Life, Support Legacy Systems
Aerospace and defense, industrial automation and robotics, rail transportation, and other organizations which often struggle to support long-life...
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Researchers Reduce Graphene-Enhanced Composite Development Time Using Neural Networks
Nano Graphene Inc. dba GrapheneCA (“GrapheneCA”) has cut the time and cost of developing graphene-enhanced advanced composites by using neural networks...
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Collins Aerospace Will Provide Avionics and Synthetic Vision for the Supersonic X-59 QueSST
Lockheed Martin Corporation has chosen Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Collins Aerospace (formerly Rockwell Collins) to supply the avionics and...
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McLaren Applied Technologies’ All-Electric, AI-Infused Vision of Formula 1 Racing
McLaren Applied Technologies of Woking, United Kingdom unveiled their “MCLExtreme” (MCLE) vision for the future of grand prix racing. While McLaren...
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Blue Origin Aims for Crewed New Shepard Launch in 2019
Kent, Washington-based Blue Origin successfully completed the tenth launch of its suborbital launch vehicle New Shepard. The NS-10 launch – the fourth launch for this specific...
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NATS Will Test AI at Heathrow to Reduce Weather-Related Flight Delays
NATS Holdings (NATS), formerly National Air Traffic Services and the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) main air navigation service provider, is exploring the impact of...
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The Future of Autonomous Vehicle Engineering Now Starts in Middle School
Artificial intelligence (AI) applications are pervasive in nearly all aspects of the mobility engineering, from vehicle design, manufacturing, operations, and...
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The F-22 Raptor Gets Its First Metallic 3D-Printed Part
Maintainers from the U.S. Air Force 574th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS) have installed the first titanium additively manufactured titanium component on an operational Lockheed...
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Airbus’ Quantum Computing Challenge May Fundamentally Change Aircraft Development
A global quantum computing competition to advance optimization and modularity in aircraft life-cycle is open to post-graduate students, academics,...
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MathWorks Rolls out Major Update to Aerospace Blockset
Natick, Massachusetts-based MathWorks – developer of MATLAB and Simulink software – has added flight control analysis tools to their Aerospace Blockset in release 2018b. The latest...
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Late Paul Allen’s Stratolaunch Company Cancels Launch Vehicle Projects
Months after founder Paul G. Allen’s death, Seattle-based Stratolaunch Systems Corporation will abandon several launch vehicle projects. The news comes days after a...
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